Fabric-turfing implement



(No Model.)

J. G. RORIOK.

FABRIG TURFING IMPLEMENT.

No. 340,895. Patented Apr. 27, 1886.

NITED STATES PATENT ()FrIcE.

JOHN G. RORIOK, or wAusno'N, OHIO.

'FABRlC-TURFING IMPLEMENT.

PJPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 340,895, dated April 27, 1886.

Application filed SeptemberlS, 1885. Serial No. 177,160, (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN 0. Bowen, of IVauseon, Fulton county, Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fabric-Turfing Implements, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description,which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form part of this specification.

Myinvention relates to that class of devices known as hand embroidering or rug implements, used for forming pile or tufts on fabrics in the manufacture of rugs and like articles, and more especially to that class of such implementsin which two handles or blocks are connected and are caused to slide to and fro past each other, bearing at their outer ends, respectively, the devices for inserting the yarn or piling material through the fabric and for retaining the same, so as to form a series of loops or a pile on the fabric on which the work is done on the side opposite from the implement. In machines of this class heretofore in use the needle or perforating instrument has been eye-pointed or provided with an eye at or near its point, carrying the thread or yarn through thefabric with the'point of the needle. In such machines it frequently occurs that the needle carries its yarn, or sews it through the yarn of previously-formed loops, thus knottiug and interlacing, making the work rough and uneven, and rendering it nec essary to go over the work a second time for the purpose of correcting the irregularities so formed.

The object of my invention is to avoid the objection here stated.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of my device. Figs. 2 and Sare illustrations of manner of forming loop and proceeding from one loop to the next. Fig. 4: is a perspective view of plate a, hereinafter referred to, detached. Fig. 5 is an elevation of a portion of my device; and Fig. 6 a plan of said plate a.

In implements of the class to which my in vention relates the blocks or handles have heretofore been provided, one with an eye-pointed needle for carrying the yarn through the fabric and forming theloop, and the other with a loop-holder which follows through the aperture made by the needle, catching and holding the loop while the needle is withdrawn and again put through the fabric for the next stitch. In operating implements of this class it is necessary, for the sake of rapidity of work and uniformity of stitch, that the loop holder remain in the fabric until the point of the needle has been moved forward and inserted for a new loop. of the needle while the loop-holder remzi IS in the fabric, various forms of blocks and other devices have been constructed-sueh as beveling away the adjoining surfaces of blocks A and B at their extremities, so that they may rock or tilt upon eachother, as shown in Fig. 1 or by introducing wedgeshaped pieces between the blocks, causing them to separate as the needle-carrier is advanced, or by having the blocks or handles slide constantly against each other, the loopholder being a spring and yielding to the for ward pressure of the hands upon the implement.

As my invention is alike applicable to the various forms mentioned, I do not limit my invention to any form of block or handle or means of securing feed, but prefer that herein shown.

In the drawings, A is a handle or block provided at its outer end with aplate, a, covering the end of the handle,and turned down so as to form flanges embracing the sides of the block for convenience in fastening. Handle A is also provided with a flat projecting point, C, which serves as a punch or bodkin. The edges of said punch may be provided at its broad end with flanges c 0, so that when the punch is inserted in the fabric flanges c 0 will form a guard, preventing the end of the loop-maker from coming in contact with the fibers of the fabricas the loops are formed and pushed through. In the end of block A, immediately under plate a, is cut afunnel-shaped notch, in, having its smaller end toward block B, forming an orifice through the handle A, the punch 0 being upon one side ofthe shoulder which limits its advance through the fabric, and the orifice o upon the other side of said shoulder.

To permit the advance B is a block or handle, which, for the sake of symmetry, is made of the same size and contour as block A, and is connected therewith by loops Z and Z, or other suitable means, so that said blocks may reciprocate longitudinally within the limit of slots or other suitable stop.

Block B is provided at its outer end with a bar or loop-maker, D. I prefer that the bar D on the side next to block A be flat, with a longitudinal corrugation designed to receive the yarn when being pushed through the fabric, as shown in Fig. 1, and beveled to an edge as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, to permit the easy passage of the bar D through the fabric, the said bevel and corrugation forming a notch or fork, d, inthe end of the bar D.

One or both of the blocks A. and B may be beveled at the end held by the hands, as shown in Fig. l at b, so that by pressing the hands toward each other the adjoining faces of the two blocks rock or tilt upon each other, causing the outer ends to separate to the extent limited by loop Z.

In operating the implement the fabric to be worked upon is stretched in a frame. The yarn is passed through orifice a in handle A. Block A may be held by its large end in the right hand and block B in the left hand. The punch C is now pushed through the fabric, as in Fig. 2. The hands are pressed slightly apart, causing the bar D to hug the face of the block A. Block B is now pushed forward, the yarn falls and is paid out directly in the line of travel of bar D on the side of the fabric next to the operator, and is caught in notch or fork a and is carried in the form of a loop through the fabric with bar D, as shown in Fig. 3. Handle A is now withdrawn with its punch,the loop-maker D remaining in the fabric for the purpose of holding the implement in position while the next perforation is made. The hands are now pressed slightly together, causing block A to rock on bevel b and punch O to tilt forward, as shown in Fig. 3. The punch is now again pushed into the fabric and a new perforation formed. The loop-maker is next withdrawn, leaving its loop on the opposite side of the fabric, and the operation is repeated.

It will be observed that in my device the needle is dispensed with, and that the loops or tufts are formed, inserted, and left in place by means of the notched bar D alone, which, being blunt, cannot of course sew through the yarn of previously-formed loops.-

XVhat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. Handle A, provided with punch C and orifice a, said punch being upon one side of a stop, limiting its advance through the fabric, and said orifice being upon the other side of said stop, in combinationwith means for forming a loop, substantially as shown and described, for the purposes set forth.

2. Handle A, provided with plate a, punch O, and notch or orifice a, said punch and orifice being on opposite sides of a stop, limiting the advance of said punch through the fabric, in combination with means for forming a loop, substantially as shown and described, for the purposes set forth.

3. In a turfing implement as a means for forming, inserting, and leaving the loop in place, so that the same shall not be sewed through the yarn of previously-formed loops, the bar or loop-maker D, in combination with punch C and ineansfor delivering the yarn in the line of travel of said bar upon the side of the fabric next to handles A B, substantially as shown and described, for the purpose specified.

4. Handles A B, connected by suitable de vice, and provided with suitable means for obtaining feed, (or motion of the machine forward,) in combination with punch 0, bar or loopmaker D, and suitable means for delivering the yarn to the loop-maker on the side of the fabric next to the handles, substantially as shown and described, for thepurpose specified.

JOHN G. BORIGK.

Witnesses:

E. S. CALLENDAR, ALMON HALL. 

